Oh, I'm very much relieved to hear that. I already figured out the source was biased, but this does bring up the point that often times, diversity is pretty much forced down our throats. I've never been to Arizona myself (the ignorant speaks!), but perhaps it's like the South? Where the majority race is Caucasian the diversity would not reflect reality?
Arizona's actions are the first to be so definite and that's probably what's causing a lot of the uproar. A lot of Californians mutter about illegal immigrants taking away jobs from the natural-born citizens, so we are a bit hypocritical. Still, other news articles I've read have given me the impression that what Arizona has done is endangering the rights of minorities, the legal ones, somehow.
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The flak about Airbender is that everything was white-washed. Truth to be told, the creators of the show said it was based on Inuit culture, but I really just wanted to see a block buster that had a minority/non-Caucasian-dominated cast. Too many movies have only token-black, token-Asian, token-whatever characters and the heroes are, across the board 99% white. Unless the movie is imported from another country. If I want to see a movie with an Asian hero, I have to watch a Chinese movie with subtitles and being Asian American, that sucks.
As to show being completely fictional, that's true, but there is a very obvious Eastern influence and making the cast white (Katara's skin glows in the dark, seriously), loses a lot of the atmosphere. Also, there are different nations, yet all the main cast/characters, each who represent one of the nations, are white? This just isn't realistic when you're trying to build a whole other world. The Earth had its different races, doesn't it?
Also, the show uses Chinese characters--it's Asian.
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Date: 2010-07-24 05:33 am (UTC)Arizona's actions are the first to be so definite and that's probably what's causing a lot of the uproar. A lot of Californians mutter about illegal immigrants taking away jobs from the natural-born citizens, so we are a bit hypocritical. Still, other news articles I've read have given me the impression that what Arizona has done is endangering the rights of minorities, the legal ones, somehow.
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The flak about Airbender is that everything was white-washed. Truth to be told, the creators of the show said it was based on Inuit culture, but I really just wanted to see a block buster that had a minority/non-Caucasian-dominated cast. Too many movies have only token-black, token-Asian, token-whatever characters and the heroes are, across the board 99% white. Unless the movie is imported from another country. If I want to see a movie with an Asian hero, I have to watch a Chinese movie with subtitles and being Asian American, that sucks.
As to show being completely fictional, that's true, but there is a very obvious Eastern influence and making the cast white (Katara's skin glows in the dark, seriously), loses a lot of the atmosphere. Also, there are different nations, yet all the main cast/characters, each who represent one of the nations, are white? This just isn't realistic when you're trying to build a whole other world. The Earth had its different races, doesn't it?
Also, the show uses Chinese characters--it's Asian.